Valium and Grass [experimental/music video/found footage] - Bill Macomber and Tony Schloss, Los Angeles, CA, 12 min, Super8
Assembling a collage that is as much sonic as it is visual, these filmmakers set hypnotic beats to an eclectic mix of b-movie and home movie footage. Then they scribble over it, cut it up, fold it in on itself, and get deliriously trippy with it.

Broadcast 23 [fiction] - Tom Putnam, Woodland Hills, CA, 8 min, 35mm
Finally an action-packed hi/lo film that could be on the Sci Fi network! In bright 35mm color, an intrepid animal behaviorist ventures into the mountains of the Northwest for a proverbial date with destiny.

Glass Crow [animation] - Steven Subotnick, Providence, RI, 6 min, Beta SP Using a highly original animation style, the history of Central Europe's 30 Years War is told from the perspective of the birds that flew over it all.

I Can Say It [fiction] - David Politzer, Syracuse, NY, 3 min, Mini DV
Practice, theoretically, makes perfect. When it comes to those magic words, however, it's all in the timing.

Little Muffin [fiction] - Sean Christensen, San Francisco, CA, 1 min, Mini DV
It's little. It's a muffin. The rest is movie magic.

Gentle Nightmare [fiction] - Alvarez Wortham, Los Angeles, CA, 4 min, Mini DV
There are many ways to leave your lover, but it's not so easy to convey just how much it hurts.

Somebody's Watching Me [fiction] - Ryan Archibald, St. Clair Shores, MI, 8 min, 35mm
A peeping-tom for the digital age this ultra-stylized voyeur can't resist a quick peek through a window--online and off.

Found Artists: Gary Crom [documentary] - Curtis Craven, Austin, TX, 9 min, DVCAM
Somewhere in the Deep South (we're talking serious Red State territory) Gary Crom stands up for a post-modern interpretation of 'art.' But he's not all talk - he makes things out of the junk (living and dead) he comes across, even things he picks out of his own body.

Chinese Beauty [fiction] - Debbie Lum, San Francisco, CA, 10 min, 35mm
A classic immigrant tale: Bonnie recently moved to LA from Korea. She's fallen in love with champion runner Brad Armstrong and she's ready to go the distance: and will wear any outfit to prove to him that they're a perfect match.

Updebum [documentary] - Jim Minton, Dallas, TX, 3 min, DV
Images compiled from things lost, you know where. We've probably already said too much.

Papillon D'Amour [experimental/found footage] - Nicolas Provost, Brussels, Belgium, 4 min, DV
A scene from Akira Kurosawa's Rashoman is turned on its side as a depiction of violence becomes mesmerizingly beautiful.

Magic Hostess: The Electric Can Opener [music video] - Rob Tyler, Portland, OR, 4 min, Mini DV/Super8
Charlie Chaplin critiqued industrialization with Modern Times and Jacques Tati satirized the automatic world in Playtime but here is a more reverent tribute to the wonders of 20th century technology.

Lilo and Me [documentary] - Kip Fulbeck, Southern California, 9 min, Beta SP
Sure, sure, everyone grows up with insecurities about fitting in - but what do you do if the only representations you ever see of yourself are the ethnically ambiguous characters in Disney movies?

Valium and Grass (part 2) [experimental/music video/found footage] - Bill Macomber and Tony Schloss, Los Angeles, CA, 12 min, Super8
Assembling a collage that is as much sonic as it is visual, these filmmakers set hypnotic beats to an eclectic mix of b-movie and home movie footage. Then they scribble over it, cut it up, fold it in on itself, and get deliriously trippy with it.

Rotation [documentary] - Erin Hudson, Palo Alto, CA, 3 min, 16mm
Every filmmaker who has ever driven along 580 by the windmills at the Altamont Pass has wanted to put them in a movie; now someone has.

Homoerotic Destination Tokyo [found footage] - Kurt Serbus, San Francisco, CA, 3 min, 35mm
Did you ever wonder what serving on a sub in WW II might have been like? Wonder no more, but please don't ask and don't tell.

Spam-ku: I won a haiku contest about spam [fiction] - Steven Tsuchida, Los Angeles, CA, 5 min 35mm
If the X-files had a penchant for Japanese poetry (and for a certain Hormel meat-based product) you might get a metaphysical comedy like this.